Pail holder



E. T. ABENDROTH.

PAlL HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 24,1920.

Patented Sept. 26, 1922 2 SHEETS-SHEET E. TJABENDHOTH. PAIL HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 24, 1920. 1,429,917. Patentedfiept 26,1922

2 SHEETS SHEET 2.

Patented Sept. 26, 1922.

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ELMER '1, ABENDB-OTH, DE PERE, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR TO HUDSON MANUFAC- TURING COMPANY, OF MINNEAPOLI3, MINNESOTA, A CORPORATION OF MINNE- SOTA.

Application filed. May 24.

To all whom it concern:

Be it known that 1, Emma T. Annnono'rn, a citizen of the United States, residing at De Pere, in the county of Brown and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pail Holders; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has for its object to provide an extremely simple and highly efficient pail holder for calf pens and the like, and to this end, it consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described and defined in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate the invention, like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a fragmentary perspective view of a calf pen having the invention secured to certain of the upright bars thereof and holding a pail in a position where a calf can drink from the same through the stanchion of the calf pen;

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the pail holder and pail, together with sections of the bars to which said pail holder is secured, said pail being diagrammatically illustrated by means of broken lines; and

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the pailholding band removed from the bearing heads.

For the purpose of illustrating the improved pail holder in working position, there is shown in the drawings a section of a calf pen l anchored to and supported above a concrete curb 5.. Said calf pen section includes a stanchion 6, on each side of which is an upright bar 7 that is round in cross section. The improved pail holder comprises a pair of bearing heads 8 and a horizontally disposed band 9 formed, as shown, from a single round rod bent to annular form and having an extent considerably more than a half circle. Both ends of the band 9 are bent outward in the plane of said band and then laterally downward to form prongs 10.

The bearing heads 8 have large vertical bores, through which the bars 7 extend and connect said bearing heads thereto with freedom for vertical sliding and horizontal PAIL. HOLDER.

1920. Serial No. 383,612.

swinging movements in respect thereto. Set screws 11 have screw-threaded engagement with the bearing heads 8 and impinge against the bars 7 to hold said bearing heads in different vertical and horizontal adjustments. 9 I

Also formed in the bearing heads 8 are vertical bores, which afford seats 12 in which the prongs 10 of the band 9 are pivotally and removably mounted to support said band in a horizontal position over the curb 5 and in front of the stanchion 6. A pail 13 is removably supported within the band 9 of the improved pail holder, which band extends considerably more than halfway around said pail to hold the same against lateral movement in all directions. The horizontal or lateral adjustment of the bearing heads 8 is highly important as it permits the securing of the improved pail holder to laterally'spaced bars or uprights set differentdistances apart. Said horizontal or lateral adjustment of the bearing heads 8 also makes it possible to hold the ends of the band 9 either drawn together or sprung apart to vary the diameter of the band and thereby cause the same to fit around pails that vary in diameter. By vertically adjusting the bearing heads 8 on the bars 7, the band 9 may be raised or lowered to support the pail 13 at the desired elevation. When the improved pail holder is not in use, the band 9 may be detached from the bearing heads 8 and hung up out of the way.

The above described invention, while eX- tremely simple and of small cost to manufacture, has, in actual usage, proven highly efiicient for the purpose had in view.

Whatl claim is:

1. The combination with a pair of laterally spaced uprights, a pair of bearing heads laterally adjustable on the uprights,

movement, said bearing heads being provided with seats laterally offset from the uprights, means for securing the bearing heads to the uprights in different adjustmerits, and an adjustable band having on its ends prongs pivotally mounted in the seats in the bearing heads for supporting the band in a horizontal position said band being movable and adjustable by said seats.

3. A pail holder comprising a substantially circular band with open ends eX- tending in opposite directions and provided with vertically extending prongs spaced standards and vertically and rotatively adjustable heads on said standards for receiving said prongs whereby the band can be expanded and contracted and raised and lowered. I

4. A pail holder comprising spaced sub- ELMER T. ABENDROTH.

Witnesses G. A. SNAVELY, DAN FISHER. 

